From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop RCU after processing each root in MMU notifier hooks
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 18:32:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YiEJwT+o9DvPOu6H@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220226001546.360188-10-seanjc@google.com>
On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Drop RCU protection after processing each root when handling MMU notifier
> hooks that aren't the "unmap" path, i.e. aren't zapping. Temporarily
> drop RCU to let RCU do its thing between roots, and to make it clear that
> there's no special behavior that relies on holding RCU across all roots.
>
> Currently, the RCU protection is completely superficial, it's necessary
> only to make rcu_dereference() of SPTE pointers happy. A future patch
> will rely on holding RCU as a proxy for vCPUs in the guest, e.g. to
> ensure shadow pages aren't freed before all vCPUs do a TLB flush (or
> rather, acknowledge the need for a flush), but in that case RCU needs to
> be held until the flush is complete if and only if the flush is needed
> because a shadow page may have been removed. And except for the "unmap"
> path, MMU notifier events cannot remove SPs (don't toggle PRESENT bit,
> and can't change the PFN for a SP).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index 634a2838e117..4f460782a848 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -1100,18 +1100,18 @@ static __always_inline bool kvm_tdp_mmu_handle_gfn(struct kvm *kvm,
> struct tdp_iter iter;
> bool ret = false;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> -
> /*
> * Don't support rescheduling, none of the MMU notifiers that funnel
> * into this helper allow blocking; it'd be dead, wasteful code.
> */
> for_each_tdp_mmu_root(kvm, root, range->slot->as_id) {
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +
> tdp_root_for_each_leaf_pte(iter, root, range->start, range->end)
> ret |= handler(kvm, &iter, range);
> - }
>
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 2.35.1.574.g5d30c73bfb-goog
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-03 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-26 0:15 [PATCH v3 00/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Overhaul TDP MMU zapping and flushing Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 01/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Use common iterator for walking invalid TDP MMU roots Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 19:08 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-02 19:51 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 0:57 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 02/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Check for present SPTE when clearing dirty bit in TDP MMU Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 19:50 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 03/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix wrong/misleading comments in TDP MMU fast zap Sean Christopherson
2022-02-28 23:15 ` Ben Gardon
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 04/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Formalize TDP MMU's (unintended?) deferred TLB flush logic Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 23:59 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 0:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 1:20 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 1:41 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 4:50 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 16:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 05/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Document that zapping invalidated roots doesn't need to flush Sean Christopherson
2022-02-28 23:17 ` Ben Gardon
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 06/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Require mmu_lock be held for write in unyielding root iter Sean Christopherson
2022-02-28 23:26 ` Ben Gardon
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 07/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Check for !leaf=>leaf, not PFN change, in TDP MMU SP removal Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 0:11 ` Ben Gardon
2022-03-03 18:02 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 08/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Batch TLB flushes from TDP MMU for MMU notifier change_spte Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 18:08 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 09/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop RCU after processing each root in MMU notifier hooks Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 18:24 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 18:32 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 10/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Add helpers to read/write TDP MMU SPTEs and document RCU Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 18:34 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 11/28] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if old _or_ new SPTE is REMOVED in non-atomic path Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 18:37 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 12/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Refactor low-level TDP MMU set SPTE helper to take raw vals Sean Christopherson
2022-03-03 18:47 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 13/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the target TDP MMU shadow page in NX recovery Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 14/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip remote TLB flush when zapping all of TDP MMU Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 0:19 ` Ben Gardon
2022-03-03 18:50 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 15/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Add dedicated helper to zap TDP MMU root shadow page Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 0:32 ` Ben Gardon
2022-03-03 21:19 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 21:24 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-03-03 23:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 16/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Require mmu_lock be held for write to zap TDP MMU range Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 17/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only TDP MMU leafs in kvm_zap_gfn_range() Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 18/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Do remote TLB flush before dropping RCU in TDP MMU resched Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 19/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Defer TLB flush to caller when freeing TDP MMU shadow pages Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 20/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow yielding when zapping GFNs for defunct TDP MMU root Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 18:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-01 19:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 20:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 2:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 14:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 17:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 21/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Zap roots in two passes to avoid inducing RCU stalls Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 0:43 ` Ben Gardon
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 22/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Zap defunct roots via asynchronous worker Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 17:57 ` Ben Gardon
2022-03-02 17:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 17:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 18:33 ` David Matlack
2022-03-02 18:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 18:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 18:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 19:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 20:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 20:47 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-03-02 21:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 22:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 23/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Check for a REMOVED leaf SPTE before making the SPTE Sean Christopherson
2022-03-01 18:06 ` Ben Gardon
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 24/28] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on any attempt to atomically update REMOVED SPTE Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 25/28] KVM: selftests: Move raw KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION helper to utils Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 26/28] KVM: selftests: Split out helper to allocate guest mem via memfd Sean Christopherson
2022-02-28 23:36 ` David Woodhouse
2022-03-02 18:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-02 21:55 ` David Woodhouse
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 27/28] KVM: selftests: Define cpu_relax() helpers for s390 and x86 Sean Christopherson
2022-02-26 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 28/28] KVM: selftests: Add test to populate a VM with the max possible guest mem Sean Christopherson
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